Sister Birth Blog

Pointers for first time moms planning a home birth.

Have you seen this? This peaceful, unassisted water birth on a porch at the edge of a meadow… the one where the baby received a little assistance from her mother to finish being born? It’s worth watching. And have gratitude for the brave and bold @thealliewoods for livestreaming and sharing her very personal moments with the world. And […]

Over the years, I have shared in a rather raw form about my postpartum journeys, often with the hashtags of #takebackpostpartum or #honestpostpartum. Here below I offer a smattering of those posts about my 3rd postpartum time collected in one blog post, to paint a portrait of the multifaceted adjustments that a mamababy dyad goes […]

Old IG posts chronicaling some of my postpartum journey with my fourth baby, a winter baby.

Over the years, I have shared in a rather raw form about my postpartum journeys, often with the hashtags of #takebackpostpartum or #honestpostpartum. Here below I offer a smattering of those posts collected in one blog post, to paint a portrait of the multifaceted adjustments that a mamababy dyad goes through in the first days […]

a diary-style glimpse of my first 3 weeks postpartum with my 6th baby, which was an intentionally planned and supported lying-in period

nighttime, outdoor freebirth wild pregnancy in Michigan with birthkeeper Brooke Collier

the home water birth story of Gilbert Ignatius, in photos.

Dear mama-to-be, Take inventory of all that you are, that which you care about, andthe ways that you move through the world. These are parts of who you are,The way you have been divinely created.And it is good And soon, as you labor to bring your baby out into the light (And as you mother […]

4 of the most common hesitations for hiring a birth photographer